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> home appliances like stoves and washing machines are returning to knobs It can't come a bit too soon. My oven has buttons that aren't actually raised from t
by JadeNB 2y ago
> home appliances like stoves and washing machines are returning to knobs
It can't come a bit too soon. My oven has buttons that aren't actually raised from their surroundings, and presses are registered via some sort of presumably fancy processing that I guess sounded slick when it was being pitched, but in practice means that it's very, very difficult to be confident that a button press will do anything, especially when fingers are greasy from cooking.
Oh, and sometimes whatever processor it's using gets frozen up, so I have to turn it off and back on again. But, since it's hardwired, this involves toggling a fuse. I'm sure that there are many ways that this is a better oven than the one in the many-decades-old apartment where I used to live, but I never had to re-boot that oven.
- jsheard 2y ago> presumably fancy processing that I guess sounded slick I'm pretty sure that capacitive touch sensing is just cheaper than physical interfaces, it's more to do with corner cutting than being slick. All you need to create a capsense "button" is some traces on a PCB, they're essentially free if you're making a PCB anyway.
- JadeNB 2y ago> I'm pretty sure that capacitive touch sensing is just cheaper than physical interfaces, it's more to do with corner cutting than being slick. All you need to create a capsense "button" is some traces on a PCB, they're essentially free if you're making a PCB anyway. That makes sense. Thanks!
- Zanfa 2y agoI love how my stove’s capacitive buttons sometimes don’t register when I’m using one hand to stir with a conductive spatula while trying to turn down the temp with the other until I let go of the spatula.
- bitwize 2y agoDishwasher, same thing. Half the time it won't register a press when I need it to turn on. Yet the cat can start a cycle when he decides he wants to have a climb.